Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how A Dragon’s Escape uses and protects any information that you give A Dragon’s Escape when you use this website.

A Dragon’s Escape is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

A Dragon’s Escape may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page periodically to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

Last updated: 23/07/2022

Who we are

A Dragon’s Escape provides travel guides and walking trails for individuals. Our website address is: https://www.adragonsescape.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When you leave comments on the website, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address, browser user agent and referrer string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. Please view the Gravatar privacy policy. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Contact forms

When you submit a contact form on the website, we collect the data shown in the contact form submission, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. This website is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and Google terms of service apply.

We keep contact form submissions for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.

Newsletter subscriptions

When you subscribe to the Escape Monthly newsletter, we collect the data shown in the subscription form submission to provide updates and marketing. You can change your mind at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the footer of any email they receive from us, or by contacting us via the Contact form.

We use MailChimp as our marketing automation platform. By subscribing to the newsletter, you acknowledge that the information they provided will be transferred to MailChimp for processing in accordance with the MailChimp privacy policy and MailChimp terms.

Social media

This website includes social media features (such as the Facebook “Share” button). These features may collect your IP address and which page you are visiting on our website and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are hosted by Add to Any. Your interactions with these features are governed by the AddToAny privacy policy.

Cookies

When you leave a comment on our website you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Our website may request cookies to be set on your device. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our website, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with us. Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer.

We use Ezoic to provide personalisation services on this website, as such the Ezoic privacy policy is in effect.

Embedded content from other websites

This website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, maps, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you have visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Anonymous analytics data is collected by the Google Analytics service to understand and optimise our site usage. Google Analytics collects the following data: IP address, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code and other data. Google Analytics also tracks the following activity: Post and page views, outbound link clicks, referring URLs, search engine terms and other activities. Please view the Google privacy policy.

We also use Ezoic to provide analytic services on this website, as such the Ezoic privacy policy is in effect.

Who we share your data with

We do not sell to any third-party your personal information.

We may share information about you with third-party service providers who need to know information about you in order to provide their services to us. This group includes vendors that help us provide our services to you (like email delivery services that help us stay in touch with you, email support services that help us communicate with you), those that assist us with our marketing efforts, and those that help us understand and enhance our services (like analytics providers), who may need information about you in order to, for example, provide technical or other support services to you.

View our service providers’ privacy policies: AddToAnyAkismet, Ezoic, Google, MailChimp, Wordfence.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

If you submit a contact form, the contact form entry and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is for marketing purposes.

What rights you have over your data

If you have left comments or submitted a contact form, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.

Contact information

If you would like to contact us regarding privacy-specific questions or concerns, please send us a message via the Contact form.